Bulldogpundit has an interesting observation over at Ankle Biting Pundits, re: North Dakota Governor Jim Hoeven’s decision not to challenge Democrat Senator Kent Conrad next year. It is because he feared a challenge from Hoeven that Conrad voted to confirm Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday.

Says Bulldogpundit:

Look for Conrad to ask to have his Roberts “Aye” vote back, and now be free to fight like hell against the President’s next SCOTUS nominee. Had Hoeven run, Conrad would not have supported the inevitable filibuster.

He is banking on a Dem filibuster of Nominee X. We’ll wait on that one, though even some in the MSM are predicting it, and polls show that people surveyed think the opposition to Roberts was pure politics.

It might backfire.